[ltp] What's cutting my CPU speed in half?

Daniel Skorka linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:06:54 +0100


On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:32:59AM -0500, John Sullivan wrote:
> This is true on both battery and AC. Temperature seems to be fine:
> 
> root@ashbery:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0# cat temperature
> temperature:             37 C

What about the other temperatures, i.e.
$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
It might be that something else is heating up and your thinkpad is doing
all it can to cool down.

> I noticed that last time I rebooted, the CPU speed was back to up to the
> maximum again. So it's not always like this.

Can you identify a pattern?

Daniel